Call for Applications: International Mid-Career Biosecurity Fellowship 2025
Fellowship announcement
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is happy to open purposes for the International Mid-Career Biosecurity Fellowship (2025)—a month-long hybrid program starting mid-May with a digital part, and concluding with in-person periods in Germany from June 17 to twenty, 2025. This fellowship comes at a time of rising geopolitical tensions, rampant misinformation, and recurring infectious illness outbreaks; the devastating influence of organic threats has develop into extra evident than ever. These threats—whether or not rising naturally, by chance, or by means of deliberate actions—pose critical dangers to world safety and stability.
Application Deadline:
🕕 6:00 AM US Eastern Daylight Savings Time on Monday, May 5, 2025
Application Review: Submissions can be reviewed on a rolling foundation.
Fellowship Cohort Size: 10–12 members
About the Fellowship
This program is designed to assist mid-career professionals and rising leaders in:
- Biosecurity
- Countering WMDs
- Nonproliferation
- Global well being
- International relations
- National safety
Fellows will interact deeply with key points associated to organic dangers and can change information with friends and main specialists.
Fellowship Activities Include:
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Virtual Course Component:
- Self-paced on-line course (equal to a condensed faculty semester)
- Topics coated:
- History and trajectories of organic weapons applications
- The bioeconomy
- Emerging organic dangers and tech convergence
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In-Person Component (Germany, June 17–20, 2025):
- Site go to and group dinner in Munich
- Two and a half days of dialogue and workshops in Berlin
- Participation within the Global Biosecurity Accelerator Dialogue
- Engagements with:
- Former and present authorities officers
- Public and personal sector innovators
- Policymakers from NATO and Indo-Pacific associate international locations
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Networking Opportunities:
- Connect with friends, senior officers, and specialists throughout the rising organic danger discount discipline.
All actions will draw on CSR’s deep experience and collaborative networks. Guided by a daring imaginative and prescient, CSR goals to eradicate the specter of organic weapons and forestall future illness outbreaks from turning into pandemics. Learn extra within the Handbook for Ending Catastrophic Biological Risks and different CSR assets.
Fellowship Benefits
- Comprehensive understanding of biosecurity and biothreat mitigation.
- Strengthened skilled community throughout biosecurity and biotechnology sectors.
- Contribution to efforts stopping future pandemics and bio-based mass destruction.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants should:
- Be mid-career professionals (usually 10+ years {of professional} and/or superior tutorial expertise; versatile definition)
- Have a background in:
- National safety
- Global well being
- International relations
- Medical, authorized, coverage, or different related fields
- Hold a graduate diploma or be presently enrolled in a graduate program
- Demonstrate a sturdy curiosity in addressing organic threats
Note:
Prior expertise in organic danger is not required. Professionals from adjoining fields are welcome.
Nationality Requirement
Applicants have to be residents of:
- NATO member states (excluding the United States)
AND - NATO’s 4 official Indo-Pacific (IP4) companions:
- Australia
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Republic of Korea
This eligibility scope is predicated on the precise nature of the fellowship and associated logistical concerns.
Location & Travel
- Participants could full the digital course from any location with dependable web entry.
- Attendance on the in-person workshop in Germany (Munich and Berlin) is necessary.
- Travel prices can be coated by CSR.
Program Duration
- Approximately 1 month
- Begins with the digital studying module (mid-May 2025)
- Concludes with in-person engagements June 17–20, 2025
Community of Practice
- Fellows will develop into part of CSR’s increasing biosecurity ecosystem.
- They could also be invited to future unique occasions as circumstances allow.
Application Instructions
Applicants should:
- Complete the CSR application type (see hyperlink beneath).
- Upload:
- Resume/CV
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Cover letter outlining:
- Goals for collaborating within the fellowship
- Relevance to present work
- Include contact info for two references in both the resume or cowl letter.
- Be ready for a phone interview if shortlisted.
Application Deadline:
Monday, May 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM US Eastern Time
About the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)
The Council on Strategic Risks is a nonprofit, non-partisan safety coverage institute. It focuses on figuring out and addressing systemic dangers to Twenty first-century safety, together with how these dangers intersect and amplify one another.
CSR’s group, advisors, and board members embrace:
- Former prime U.S. authorities officers in biosecurity
- Leaders from the biotech innovation sector
- Experts with intensive world networks
About the Global Biosecurity Accelerator (GBA)
CSR launched the Global Biosecurity Accelerator (GBA) in Helsinki to advertise worldwide biosecurity management. The GBA:
- Brings collectively world specialists to share greatest practices
- Tracks nationwide biosecurity initiatives
- Facilitates the event of interoperable capabilities
- Hosts common monitor 1.5 dialogues
CSR believes organic resilience have to be a precedence for all nations.
For extra alternatives, go to the Opportunities for Youth’s web site.
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